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Chapters · Chapter 62

When We Let Our Guards Down

Two careful people who called their walls security, lowering them a little at a time. Nobody pushes. The trust is earned through patience, through listening, through staying put during the hesitations. The violin break sings what neither of them could say out loud.

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About the song

Chamber-pop duet that opens on solo acoustic guitar. Piano and cello enter gradually, a solo violin carries the emotional turn, and soft brushed drums arrive only in the final chorus before it falls back to guitar and violin.

Themes: Guarded hearts · Walls coming down · Believing again

Voice: Duet, Male Voice + Female Voice


If this song stayed with you

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